adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
infinitely preferable (= much better )
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In warm weather, clothes made of natural fabrics are infinitely preferable .
infinitely superior (= very much better )
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You’d be better off visiting the infinitely superior Imperial War Museum.
infinitely worse (= very much worse )
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My fate could have been infinitely worse.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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They feel nurture is of infinitely greater importance than nature.
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The clog on the market in equities must be infinitely greater .
ill
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I didn't like having my teeth drilled but extractions were infinitely worse .
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Julia took two deep breaths, felt infinitely worse and tapped on the mahogany panel of the door.
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Yet my fate could have been infinitely worse .
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But it is infinitely worse if you are so divided that it is apparent you can not take any action at all.
preferable
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In retrospect, dying of the disease itself would seem infinitely preferable to the agonies of death from mercury poisoning.
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As a class, professional golfers are swell well-scrubbed chaps and chaplets, infinitely preferable to professional wrestlers or professional loan sharks.
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It was fantastic and, I must confess, infinitely preferable to staying on my feet for two hours.
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However good they might be as students, their families feel that marriage is infinitely preferable to a college career.
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As exorcisms go, it was infinitely preferable to hurling verbal stakes at a callow Cambridge offspinner.
small
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Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size.
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Otis, who bore lifelong grudges over provocations infinitely smaller than this, was realistic enough to know when he was had.
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Then he swabbed the body down with a sticky powder, which removed a dozen infinitely small particles stuck to the skin.
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All these shapes posses a hierarchical structure extending to infinitely small scales.
variable
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The sensor can be adjusted through 180° horizontally and 90° vertically, so the detection zone is therefore almost infinitely variable .
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Combinations are infinitely variable and the ultimate choice of elements will be determined by the requirements of a particular application.
well
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Even the most tenuous thread of story is infinitely better than none at all.
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Valerie Wright is talented in every department and therefore infinitely better than Neuwirth, but Pope would have been that much better.
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That is bad enough of course, but infinitely better than two Mobs scrapping.
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The refusal to see it, to be touched by it, which was so infinitely better than either sympathy or enthusiasm.
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It tasted infinitely better than anything she had ever made for herself.
■ VERB
seem
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In retrospect, dying of the disease itself would seem infinitely preferable to the agonies of death from mercury poisoning.
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Any thought of danger seemed infinitely remote.
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A pilgrimage to Jerusalem would have seemed infinitely remote to most adventurous folk in the early Middle Ages.
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The merest action I managed to take seemed infinitely long in completing.
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But any investigation into his biography seems infinitely more satisfying by reason of his virtue, his courage and his devotion to duty.
vary
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Throughout its range of 2 octaves it is capable of infinitely varied coloration and texture, from silky velvet to deliberate ugliness.
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Individual constellations of these requirements are infinitely varied , of course.
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His material is leather, and his specialty is fitting a saddle to the infinitely varied human pelvis.
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The conditions under which this manifestation is excited are infinitely varied , according to the nature of particular bodies.
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The designs are unique, individual, can be infinitely varied each time.
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Not surprisingly, the financial position of fringe bodies is almost infinitely varied .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Our new office building is infinitely better than the old one.